Anticipating Winter Field
Day Jan 27/28
The antenna will be a 100-foot loop 30 feet across 20 feet vertical fed at the bottom with an
Icom AH4 tuner. This antenna takes up only 30 linear feet, needs no trees. and was designed to
fit the campsite.N4KGL

Video

Smith Chart: Z, VSWR,
reflection coef and transmission line effects
This video gets into several practical aspects of using a Smith Chart to take care of doing
complex calculations involving VSWR, reflection coefficient (gamma and rho), return loss, and
the impedance transformations that occur when using transmission line between a source
(generator, transmitter, etc.) and the load (antenna, amplifier input, etc.).W2AEW